Dental Tobacco Control.Net:Improving Practice (DTC)
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Tobacco use has been described as the number one behavioral health problem of our time with a projected 8.4 million total smoking related deaths worldwide by the year 2020. Current clinical practice guidelines entitled "Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence" provide a summary of evidence-based recommendations. Despite the evidence of tobacco risk and the efficacy of tobacco control interventions, 30% of current smokers report that they have never been advised to stop smoking by a healthcare provider. Nearly half (47.9%) of dentists report they have never intervened to assist tobacco users in quitting. Our intervention is designed to improve the rate of tobacco cessation advice delivered in dental practices.
This proposal is in response to the request for applications "Translational Research in Dental Practice-based Tobacco Control Interventions" (RFA: DE-03-007). Our exploration of barriers and facilitators will assist in clarifying processes that influence translation of tobacco-related knowledge into clinical dental practice. Our trial will integrate theoretically grounded methods of provider behavior change, medical informatics, and tobacco control research to translate guidelines into dental clinical practice. We will avoid a "one-size-fits-all" approach by tailoring strategies for tobacco cessation counseling to individual practices. The intervention will be longitudinal, with updates and continuous access for dentists and dental staff over 2 years. Our evaluation will extend from processes of care to patient outcomes. Ancillary analyses will assess differences in tobacco counseling rates associated with practice, provider, and patient-level variables including disparities in counseling by race. To assess the relative impact of various components of the multi-modal intervention, we will conduct secondary analyses of the association of amount of use of each specific component with frequency of tobacco cessation counseling within the intervention group.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Early Phase 1
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Alabama
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Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- general dental practices that have internet access
- Periodontal practices that have internet access
- patients of participating dental or periodontal practices
Exclusion Criteria:
- patients who were 18 years of age and younger
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Double
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: 1
Intervention group (dental practices) that received the interactive motivational website for patient tobacco cessation
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Interactive motivational website for dentists and hygienists with practice improvement resources, discussion forum, and educational cases on cessation counseling with email reminders.
Other Names:
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Placebo Comparator: 2
Control group (dental practices) that did not receive any materials or resources on tobacco cessation.
This is a wait-list control.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Our primary outcome measures are patient-reported provider delivered tobacco screening and tobacco cessation advice.
Time Frame: Baseline, 8-months post-intervention, and 24-months post-intervention
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Baseline, 8-months post-intervention, and 24-months post-intervention
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Point prevalence smoking cessation
Time Frame: six-months after index visit for patients who smoke
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six-months after index visit for patients who smoke
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Collaborators and Investigators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Thomas K Houston, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Holliday R, Hong B, McColl E, Livingstone-Banks J, Preshaw PM. Interventions for tobacco cessation delivered by dental professionals. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Feb 19;2(2):CD005084. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005084.pub4.
- Houston TK, Richman JS, Ray MN, Allison JJ, Gilbert GH, Shewchuk RM, Kohler CL, Kiefe CI; DPBRN Collaborative Group. Internet delivered support for tobacco control in dental practice: randomized controlled trial. J Med Internet Res. 2008 Nov 4;10(5):e38. doi: 10.2196/jmir.1095.
- Houston TK, Funkhouser E, Allison JJ, Levine DA, Williams OD, Kiefe CI. Multiple measures of provider participation in Internet delivered interventions. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2007;129(Pt 2):1401-5.
- Houston TK, Delaughter KL, Ray MN, Gilbert GH, Allison JJ, Kiefe CI, Volkman JE; National Dental PBRN Collaborative Group. Cluster-randomized trial of a web-assisted tobacco quality improvement intervention of subsequent patient tobacco product use: a National Dental PBRN study. BMC Oral Health. 2013 Feb 23;13:13. doi: 10.1186/1472-6831-13-13.
Study record dates
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Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- X030814016
- R01DA017971 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
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